• gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Nah, it's just about romanticizing shit. Paris is just a city where people live, with homeless people and trash on the streets and car accidents and McDonald's and gas stations and shit. Some people tend to romanticize it to the point where they have imagined an entirely different place. It has nothing to do with Japanese work ethic, and more to do with idealization. It's more like wanting to fuck a city.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      theres also a weird thing with romanticizing other monarchies in japan. like i know a handful of expats and they desperately want to visit europe to see its 'old glory' like the monarchy was some sort of fanciful thing back then

      • gayhobbes [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        But France killed all their monarchs so that is confusing.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          its more like the architecture and stuff was from monarchist times so thats the reason they like it

          they tend to romanticize the existing monarchies obv

          • gayhobbes [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            If they like monarchies maybe they can fucking suffer through England instead

    • Faith [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Went to London and it was just a really old shithole instead of a regular shithole.